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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
11 (City Point – Downtown BayView Route)
Most of the buses downtown stop at Otis Street and/or Franklin Street. The 11 decides to mix it up by terminating at Bedford Street @ Chauncy Street, south of Downtown Crossing and more or less in Chinatown. Thing is, the 11 technically doesn't technically...
Oak Grove
Seems like you can't escape the brutalism on the Orange Line, can you? Down in the Southwest Corridor you've got lots of concrete stations - and then up north there are all those other concrete stations. Oak Grove is your typical suburban terminus, and it has plenty...
Symphony
Okay, so in my Prudential review (Did I really give that station a 4/10? Gosh, I should retroactively lower that to a -50,000), I mentioned that "it lacks the charm that its sister station, Symphony, has..." Well, I'm pretty sure my eyes had been closed last time I...
100 (Elm Street – Wellington Station via Fellsway)
Do you ever get those mysterious disappearing buses? The ones that are scheduled to come at a certain time but never do? Yeah, that happened here with the 100. It runs frequently enough so that it wasn't too much of a burden, but it was still annoying. This is such an...
Random Photos: A Very Long Detour
Due to Harvard graduation a few days ago, the bus stop at Johnston Gate was closed. However, I think the replacement bus stop might be a bit far away... Um...MBTA, you know that Avenue de Lafayette is in downtown Boston, right?
325 (Elm Street, Medford – Haymarket Station via Fellsway West, Salem Street, and I-93)
Well, I've had a long hiatus, but I'll make it up to you guys with a weekday-only express bus that was ALSO on the chopping block back in 2012! Yes, we're taking a trip up I-93 today on the 325. And as usual for I-93 express buses, there was lots and lots of traffic....
GUEST POST: Green Line D Shuttle Buses
I'm really sorry for this hiatus - I've been really busy, and also really sick, so I haven't had much time to write. But here's a guest post from Jordan King! A few weekends ago, I decided to take a trip on the shuttle bus that was operating on the Green Line (D)...
Savin Hill
I was surprised at how...not bad Savin Hill was. Seriously, every time I went by here (either making a stop when going to Ashmont or zipping by when on a Braintree train), I always thought "Geez, looks like a pit." I mainly thought this because the station is right...
26 (Ashmont Station – Norfolk and Morton Belt Line)
One of the most annoying things about taking buses from beginning to end is when you get kicked out at the last stop. This is especially annoying if the driver is really mad at you for just wanting to take the route to the end (cough, cough, the 8). But that problem...
18 (Ashmont Station – Andrew Station via Fields Corner Station)
I'm back! I'm sorry for not posting in about half a million years, but I've been quite busy. Also, I went to Bermuda over April vacation, and I rode a few new bus routes over there. I'll leave it to you guys if you want to see posts about those (here's one of them...
Ashmont
Ah, here we go! Let's review a good-looking station for once! Yes, Ashmont was renovated recently, and it looks amazing. Let's get right into it and wash out the brutalism from the last review. This platform is awesome! I really, really love Ashmont's platform. It's...
Community College
Man, North Point Park is really nice! I was coming from the Science Museum and decided to take a detour to the park, which is right across the street. It's pretty new, having been built in 2007, and it's a great park. From there, I went over the even more recent...
Tufts Medical Center
Last summer I had a job that required going to Chinatown once a week. I would always use Tufts Medical Center, since it was closer to where I was working (also, Chinatown Station is pretty awful). Being a jaded commuter then, I really didn't focus too much on the...
87 (Arlington Center or Clarendon Hill – Lechmere Station via Somerville Ave)
I originally had this grand plan to take all the Lechmere buses I haven't taken yet in one day. This plan fell flat because the 87 ran late. Come on, 87! Anyway, this route is a pretty straight run from Lechmere, up through Union Square and Davis Square, to...
101 (Malden Center Station – Sullivan Square Station via Salem Street, Main Street, and Broadway)
There are quite a few bus routes that go from Sullivan or Wellington up to Malden Center. They all more or less travel in crescents, in order to serve neighborhoods not served by the Orange Line. Most of these routes serve the eastern side of the tracks, while there...